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Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc at a glance

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Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$278k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$794kHealth$730kReligion$578kArts & Culture$111kScience & Tech$100kEducation$59kPublic Benefit$55kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WILMER EYE INSTITUTE$100,000
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER CAMBODIA$55,000
LUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION$50,000
COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY$20,000
MISSION INCREASE FOUNDATION$10,000
SPEED ART MUSEUM$10,000
KINGDOM INVESTMENT INTERNATIONAL$10,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$5,000
GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH$5,000
SPEED ART MUSEUM$5,000
CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION$2,500
LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$2,500
FOR COLUMBUS$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Pray for Columbus: $10k → 15%FOR COLUMBUS: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
OR
OH
KY
MD
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 20%.

Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 16 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+48%

Still filing today

88%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionArts & CultureEducationInternationalMembership BenefitCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    MERCY MEDICAL CENTER OF CAMBODIA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $789k · revenue +151% · 28% of their budget
  • KI
    Kingdom Investment International Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +52%
  • LP
    Luis Palau Association
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTINA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • DC
    Dwell Community Church
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Catholic Education Foundation Inc

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…

Education
3
Luther Classical College

Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.

Education
4
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
7
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
8
Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture
9
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
10
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
11
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisville Orchestra Inc; the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $700,000 · OtherTHE WILMER EYE INSTITUTEJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYXENOS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP INC: $70,000 · OtherXENOS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP INCNATIONAL CHRISTINA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+10 more: $67,000 · Other+10 moreMERCY MEDICAL CENTER OF CAMBODIA INC: $789,000 · InternationalMERCY MEDICAL CENTER OF CAMBODIA INCMISSION INCREASE FOUNDATION: $245,000 · ReligionMISSION INCREASE FOUND…Kingdom Investment International Inc: $122,000 · ReligionKingdom Investment Int…Luis Palau Association: $120,000 · ReligionLuis Palau Association+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionSPEED ART MUSEUM: $88,500 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureKMAC MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,500 · EducationColumbus School for Girls: $5,000 · EducationNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFOR COLUMBUS: $12,500 · Human Services
Other$987,000International$789,000Religion$497,000Arts & Culture$111,000Education$58,500Philanthropy$15,000Human Services$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER OF CAMBODIA INC: $789,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetMISSION INCREASE FOUNDATION: $245,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetKingdom Investment International Inc: $122,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $88,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOR COLUMBUS: $12,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGeorge & Raymond Frank Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColumbus School for Girls: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKMAC MUSEUM: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Owsley Brown II Famil…Sociable Weaver Found…The Gheens Foundation…Columbus FoundationBaird Foundation IncThe Whippoorwill Fami…The Brooke Brown Barz…Kindred Foundation IncNorton Healthcare IncW L Lyons Brown Found…Cralle Foundation IncRepublic Bank Foundat…
Owsley Brown II Family Foundation IncKY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Whippoorwill Family Foundation · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Kindred Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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